- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents Page
- 1 Playing the Game
- I: Potter Physics
- II: Space Travel
- 5 Why Computers Get Better and Cars Can’t (Much)
- 6 Vacations in Space
- 7 Space Colonies
- 8 The Space Elevator
- 8.1 Ascending into Orbit
- 8.2 The Physics of Geosynchronous Orbits
- 8.3 What Is a Space Elevator, and Why Would We Want One?
- 8.4 Why Buildings Stand Up—or Fall Down
- 8.5 Stresses and Strains: Carbon Nanotubes
- 8.6 Energy, “Climbers,” Lasers, and Propulsion
- 8.7 How Likely Is It?
- 8.8 The Unapproximated Elevator
- 9 Manned Interplanetary Travel
- 10 Advanced Propulsion Systems
- 11 Speculative Propulsion Systems
- 12 Interstellar Travel and Relativity
- 13 Faster-Than-Light Travel and Time Travel
- III: Worlds and Aliens
- IV: Year Googol
- 17 The Short-Term Survival of Humanity
- 18 World-Building
- 19 Dyson Spheres and Ringworlds
- 20 Advanced Civilizations and the Kardashev Scale
- 21 A Googol Years
- 21.1 The Future of the Future
- 21.2 The “Short Term”: Up to 500 Million Years or so
- 21.3 The “Medium Term”: Up to about 10^13 Years
- 21.4 The “Long Term”: Up to a Googol Years
- 21.5 Black Hole–Powered Civilizations
- 21.6 Protons Decay—or Do They?
- 21.7 A Googol Years—All the Black Holes Evaporate
- 21.8 Our Last Bow
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: Newton’s Three Laws of Motion
- Bibliography
- Index
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